READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Death terminates the necessities and accessories of life. In death’s grip, life disintegrates, but in Christ’s hand, death has no power, no sting, we’re a passing thing or we are naught. Looking up from beneath the trees, one is enthralled in the shimmers of happy glimmers – my little family and thoughts of aspen and birch…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… When there is no concept of personal responsibility, there is no reason to seek the Lord, no reason for transformation. As a nation, our blindness to the truth will cause our destruction. We must understand that our human nature is the problem. We all must contend. We must receive Christ to redeem ourselves and our nature…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Christ became our nature (human), that we might partake of His divine nature. Christ was and is full of grace and truth – the two great things that fallen man stands in need of. He was full of grace, and therefore qualified to intercede for us; and full of truth, therefore fit to teach us. Christ…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The simple words of John’s Gospel excel in the depths of expressing God’s wisdom and God’s mysteries. John uses simple words to define the depths of deeper meanings. We can know the most profound wisdom of God in simple terms, simple vocabulary. This is how we know that God’s Word is truly inspired. The light that…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Am I building God up… or myself? The storytellers of Scripture are more than storytellers, they are messengers of God. The classroom is in the stillness of the soul as the Holy Spirit speaks, teaches, convicts, and assures the believer of eternal things. Truth is not a function of one’s opinion or perspective, it is not…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… As believers in the Church Age, we have the responsibility to carry on the Christian legacy – Christ’s legacy. Even though sin has a hold on us, Christ, by the indwelling Holy Spirit, has a stronger hold. Praise be to the Lord for that. We do not inherit our soul. God breathes soul-life into us when…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Material success is not the measure by which we gauge spiritual maturity. Affluence does not equal godliness. It is not the exterior but the interior of a person’s soul that must be covered with Christ – bathed daily in His righteousness, His Word. “He restores my soul. He guides me in paths of (His) righteousness for…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Consciousness is eternal. Negative volition and ego are the only hindrances to spiritual maturity. There can be no such utopia of man, such as “the brotherhood of man,” or “the dignity of man,” or “the equality of man.” There is only “the depravity of man.” Most Christians are self-serving rather than in service to our Lord….
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… God offers liberty to the captive, freedom to the prisoner, calm for the troubled soul, comfort to those who mourn, peace where there is only despair. We as believers are made righteous trees, ones planted by God. Our purpose is to glorify God in ambassadorship (Isaiah 61:3c). The Spirit of the Lord is upon us and…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Life is fleeting, like the wind and evaporation – short-lived and quickly passing. We search for truth and knowledge, but are never filled – that is what eternity is all about. Time is lived for filling, eternity for fullness. Life should be a humbling experience as we discover and learn truth. Reference Proverbs 30:14. Self-gratification never…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… All the things we cherish cannot be provided by any government, but by the individual citizen, each doing their part by being responsible and productive citizens. Disintegration of American jurisprudence; our liberties are being eroded in increments. Compromise is a sell-out. Philosophical differences can become clarifying – a clarification of principle and truth when truth is…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… God is in control. There has never been, nor will there ever be, a time when the Lord’s will is not done. God’s plan for creation is never-failing. God is never surprised. If the Lord wills, it will. The true believer enters into the tears of Christ; He wept over those who would not come to…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Understand this – human viewpoint supplants divine establishment. Panaceas captivate the ignorant. Religion is anti-Christ. The entire world is being gathered and prepared for dictatorship. It is the sin nature that tempts us to commit sin. This inherent distorter of human life continually opposes God’s plan for blessing humankind (Galatians 5:17). Human nature is unreliable, unstable,…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Equality cancels freedom – think about this. It restricts intellectual growth and financial independence. Equality enforced destroys individual freedom. Individual freedom is what a republic/democracy is all about. Equality seems so right but it neutralizes freedom of the individual and the corporation. God is the power of truth. Truth is powered by God. God is truth….
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Ill-defined terms and ambiguous statements are linguistic devices, ones employed by political propagandists in the art of persuasion and suggestion, and usually arouse emotional appeal that directs the people’s attitudes and decisions, usually to their own detriment. Social media has mastered the art of propaganda so that untruth becomes truth, and truth becomes untruth, and many…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The blinding flash of Justice, the thunderous tones of Judgment… … so it was on the cross when Christ died. The ultimate state of salvation is glorification. Then, Christ ascended into Glory. No sacrifice is too great for the soul that has grasped the concept of genuine humility. Sanctification is the reason we are here –…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Singing praises to the Lord about what we have done is not praise! Singing praises about all that God has done through Christ by the Holy Spirit is the only acceptable praise. “The war between Christ and satan, which was waged on Calvary’s hill, involves issues and powers belonging to higher realms than this earth and…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Paul welcomed exhaustion, suffering, poverty, dangers, and death because they helped him to grow into the image of Christ. The important task before each of us is to be truthful to ourselves first, so we can be truthful with God. We need to be the person God wants us to be and allow Him to reign…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The church in America today needs more than revival, it needs Bible and re-Bible – meat, not milk. The regrets of the future are avoidable today. We can, right now, change our future to one of no regrets. The void in our souls is God-shaped. Everyone has eternity in their heart, put there by God. As…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Believers must be a force for good against evil. We must look beyond ourselves to those still longing for God. Where are you looking? Look into God, then look at the longing faces all around. They are everywhere. Christ gave His life so we could live to share the good news of reconciliation, forgiveness, and peace…